Stocking Stuffers with Badger Ties

The Complete Travel Detective Bible
The Consummate Insider Tells You
What You Need to Know in an
Increasingly Complex World
By Peter Greenberg; Rodale Books, $17.95
www.petergreenberg.com

You may know
Peter Greenberg as the
travel expert from the
“Today” show, from his
nationally syndicated
radio show or as a
writer for Forbes, Men's
Health and The New
Yorker. He went to the
University of Wisconsin-
Madison and worked
for The Daily Cardinal,
UW's student-run newspaper,
in the days of riots,
marches and the Sterling
Hall bombing. Since
graduating in 1972 he has
logged more than 11 million
miles traveling the
globe. This 600-plus-page
tome collects, updates and
extends his previous books
on secrets about hotels, airports
and flying, as well as his travel diet.
For example, Greenberg advises that travelers should
talk to hotel maids, because they know everything and
will share their knowledge; that if it's cooked, eat it; and
to forget brochures, because brochures lie. The book
includes car rental tips, frequent flier strategies, traveling
with pets, senior travel, culinary travel and almost
everything else. It's a reference book that could make
the journey more pleasant for most any travelerand
save time and money.

“Even in Wisconsin, the happy land of Packer mania,
bowling leagues and Friday night fish fries, of North Woods
serenity and Wisconsin Dells escapism, sometimes the thin
barricade is torn down between society and those who have
stirred the darkest cesspool of the human soul. The cases in
this book tell of some who fell, were pushed or leapt into the
abyss,” says Milwaukee-based author and Shepherd Express
contributor Martin Hintz in his introduction to Got Murder?
From the slaughter of seven people in August 1914 at Frank
Lloyd Wright's Taliesin estate in Spring Green to the infamous
murders and
grave robbing of
Plainfield's Ed Gein,
and the more recent
horrific trail of Jeffrey
Dahmer in Milwaukee,
this book offers a
chilling, detailed look
at Wisconsin killers.
There are no common
causes, no satisfying
answers, no explanations
to assure us
it won't happen
again. Well known
for his brighter
books like Wisconsin
Portraits, Backroads
of Wisconsin and
Fun with the Family
in Wisconsin, Hintz
here opens a dark and bloody vein of America's
Dairyland.

Dennis McCann is best known as the former travel
columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
but Wisconsin Golfer magazine
readers know his
real passion is golf. He
finds great stories, true
characters and amazing
tales all around the course.
McCann introduces us to
caddies in Eagle River who
carried clubs and guns for
the mob, the K-9 Geese
Police that help chase the
big Canada crappers off the
links, and gadgets that
make golfing more fun,
even if they don't improve
your game. No putting tips,
yardage guides or course
reviews here; Rough Stuff is
real life as seen through golf
goggles, a great gift for any
golfer who ever found pleasure
looking for a ball in the tall grass.

Jeff Hagen is a Wisconsin artist (living in Indiana) whose
whimsical illustrations and books (Fry Me to the Moon and
Codfather II,
both about
fish fries)
capture the
spirit and
soul of
small-town
America.
This 112-
page book
c a p t u re s
the magic
and unique
flavor of
one-of-akind
coffeehouses
from
K e n o s h a
(Common Grounds) to Cornucopia (Siskiwit Bay Coffee).
Hagen visited more than 100 little shops and discovered,
“There is a depth of human character here that is as deep as
a bottomless cup of coffee … They provide old-fashioned
values of genuine conversation, bottomless vessels of
humor and unpretentious concern for our neighbors …
They are sacred places for the soul, a quiet place to rest from
the storms of humanity.” Just as McCann's Rough Stuff is
about something more important than golf, Brewed
Awakenings reveals life in these enchanted java-joints served
warmer and sweeter than a double-shot latte.

Birdscaping in the Midwest
A Guide to Gardening with Native Plants
to Attract Birds
By Mariette Nowak; Itchy Cat Press, $27

Sometimes it's best to stay home and let the wonders
travel to you. This lavishly illustrated, full-color, 350-page
guide is a recipe book for bird and garden lovers that shows
how to use native plants for beautiful landscaping that will
attract wild birds. There are diagrams, plans, photos
and
instructions
for creating
nine different
habitats to
bring all kinds
of feathered
excitement to
your yard.
Mariette
Nowak is former
director of
Wehr Nature
Center of the
Milwaukee
County Parks
System and is
active in the
organization
Wild Ones:
Native Plants,
Natural
Landscapes. She
notes that even
small pockets of habitat can help to preserve endangered
birds and plants. She says “individuals can and must play
an essential role in preventing the loss of species. Like it or
not, we're in the position of Noah just before the flood … we
alone are responsible for saving as many creatures as we
can.”­

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